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Foundation for the Find Your Park Movement. C. There's a lot that goes on at the National Park Service with over 20 sites.

There's a lot that goes on at the National Park Service.

With over 420 sites, every month offers a new opportunity to find your park.

And while here at the America's National Parks Podcast, we strive to focus on the stories that make these

places so special. We also think keeping up to date with what's going on with the Park Service

can be a useful tool to support and celebrate these special places.

With that in mind, we're rolling out a new series focused on news from the parks.

We call it News from the parks. The last episode of each month

we'll take a look at what's coming down the pipeline and some of the bigger news

to come out of the National Park Service in the previous weeks.

We'll share tidbits about parks celebrating birthdays or other major anniversaries.

Sharing news and events about the parks is something I've been trying to find a place for in this

podcast almost from the beginning. So let's dive right in and start with news

around the National Park Service for the month of September. So, you know, the you know,

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the We begin with a major allocation of funds, grants meant to protect our nation's history and treasures.

The National Park Service in partnership with the Institute of Museum and and Humanities has announced 12.6 million dollars and Save America's Treasure's

Grants to assist funding 41 Preservation and Conservation Projects in 23

states. Grantees include Duquesne University for the August Wilson House Preservation Project.

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